Dr. David Peter Discher MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Occupational Medicine
2781 Vista Diablo Ct Pleasanton CA, 94566About
David Discher is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Pleasanton, CA. Discher specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Discher participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
University of Illinois College of Medicine 1959
Board Certification
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- FROM THE ZOO ... TO THE WORKPLACE ... TO THE INDUSTRIAL PHYSICIAN.
- What we have learned from chernobyl.
- Legal aspects of industrial immunization programs.
- Industrial hygiene survey of metropolitan Denver.
- From the roofer to the research chemist--can we protect and promote the health of the American worker?
- Development of a new motivational spirometer--rationale for hardware and software.
- The breathmobile-industry interface. Procedures developed for industrial screening by a voluntary health agency.
- Screening for chronic pulmonary disease: survey of 10,000 industrial workers.
- An evaluation of screening tests for chronic lung disease.
- LS-MFT: lung screening by meaningful function testing. I.
- LS-MFT: lung screening by meaningful function testing. II.
- Screening by chest photofluorography in Los Angeles. The minifilm circa 1970.
- Quality evaluation and control methods in computer-assisted screening.
- Computer-assisted spirometry data analysis for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1971-80.
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